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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 1d

TLOAS is Taylor Swift’s Piña Colada Oreo -- the weird, not-for-everyone product that reminds folks how good the classics are.

Taylor Swift’s new album is her novelty Oreo play | CNN Business

Taylor Swift’s new album is her novelty Oreo play

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 3d

"You have never reported, and they all know it." 💯

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 3d

A Good Take from @lopatto.bsky.social

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 10d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 17d

I was just in the middle of writing a sentence about how AI is so incestuous now we need a really complicated flow chart to understand all the overlapping commitments these companies have made to one another. This is legit!

anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 17d

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 17d

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 17d

Le vibe shift 💅

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 23d

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 23d

@edzitron.com is joined in studio by Allison Morrow of CNN, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble newsletter to talk about the AI vibe shift, OpenAI’s burn rate, what will finally burst the bubble, and something called “Critterz”

@amorrow.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 25d

-Lisa Cook listed her Atlanta property as a "vacation home" in a loan estimate

-She never requested a tax exemption for it as a primary

-And she declared it a “2nd home” in a separate doc related to her security clearance

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show

A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 29d

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 10

Apple is the only tech giant being smart about AI (after some notable stumbles), and I will die on this hill.

Why Apple is sidestepping Silicon Valley’s AI bloodsport | CNN Business

As expected, Apple rolled out a bunch of gadget upgrades during its closely watched marketing event on Tuesday. But perhaps the most notable thing about its crisply edited, hour-and-ten-minute propaga...

www.cnn.com

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 9

The US economy added nearly 1 million FEWER jobs than initially estimated for the year ending in March

US job growth through March was significantly weaker than previously thought | CNN Business

The US jobs market has been running in a much lower gear than previously thought, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday

www.cnn.com

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hell yeah freaks, print it all

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 8

OpenAI's plan for a film made "largely by AI" includes hiring human voice actors and teams of human artists to draw the characters.

Genuine Q: How will this be different from other modern animation production?

(Gift link)

Exclusive | OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film

The film, called “Critterz,” aims to debut at the Cannes Film Festival and will leverage the startup’s AI tools and resources.

www.wsj.com

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 5

Lol

www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Zuckerberg, who seemed startled by a question directed at him, responded that he hadn’t been listening.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 5

This feels like when Garfield tried to mail Nermal to Abu Dhabi

Close advisers have been crafting a plan for President Trump to nominate Mayor Eric Adams to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, in an effort to end the mayor’s long-shot campaign for re-election in New York City, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 5

More industries lost jobs than gained them last month.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Sep 5

August jobs report: 22K added (vs expectations of 80K).

That's bad.

But more bad: June revised to minus-13K, the first negative month since 2020.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/e...

Job growth stalls: US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment at highest in nearly four years | CNN Business

Job growth slowed to a crawl in August, and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nearly four years, indicating the US labor market is growing stagnant.

www.cnn.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 4

Ahead of #JobsDay tomorrow, Friends of BLS published a FAQ answering pressing questions like:

Can the public trust BLS products?

What's up with the firing of Dr. McEntarfer & nomination of Dr. Antoni?

Why and how does the BLS revise jobs estimates?
#EconSky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

Background Information for Jobs Day – Sept 5 — The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Click Background Information for Jobs Day – Sept 5 to read the entire PDF document.

www.friendsofbls.org

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · Aug 28

US economy deck supported by nvidia and taylor swift

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Aug 28

Jay Powell is doing the smart thing. I had fun making the case he should do the crazy thing.

Where is Jay Powell? | CNN Business

Where is Jay?

www.cnn.com

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is such an important point. Going broke happens slowly at first, then all at once. Part of the reason we're not seeing markets react to the Fed infiltration is that a lot of investors will get rich before the bad things happen.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Aug 26

With apologies to @justinwolfers.bsky.social who seemed to be saying Important Things just before this announcement.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · Aug 26

Y'all this newsroom is BUZZIN

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